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Ex-White House Stenographer: With No Official Transcript, Trump Can Muddle The Truth

White House stenographers are meant to record every public utterance made by a president, but "everything changed" with the Trump administration, says Beck Dorey-Stein.
Beck Dorey-Stein, a former White House stenographer, walks with members of the White House press pool from Air Force One upon arrival at Wattay International Airport in Laos on Sept. 7, 2016.

For five years, Beck Dorey-Stein was Barack Obama's "professional stalker," she says. "His creeper."

As a former White House stenographer — a job she found on Craigslist of all places — Dorey-Stein was part of a team responsible for going anywhere the president went, recording his every public utterance and then transcribing it for posterity.

"Especially whenever he spoke with press, he made sure, just like the previous presidents did, that there.

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